Kalanick Mobilizing Uber Users Was a Historic Political Innovation
Bradley Tusk · What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Nov 29, 2025 · at 1:08:10
Bradley Tusk credits Travis Kalanick with originating 'Travis's Law,' the playbook of mobilizing app users to defeat entrenched political and regulatory interests.
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“If you have a product that people are really passionate about and you have the right means to mobilize them. You can turn your customers into political advocates and be big, powerful entrenched interests, right? Like I might've deployed that really well, and I might've been taking that to other startups I've invested in, but that was his insight, not mine. Right. And that's to me, one of the biggest political innovations we've seen in, in decades.”
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